The Experts Speak
Subtitle: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation
Contributors: Christopher Cerf (Other Contributor); Victor S. Navasky (Other Contributor)
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: January 1984
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780394520612
First sentence: In the eighteenth century, Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707-1788), director of the Royal Museum of France, calculated that the history of the earth, from the creation to the end of organic life, would last for a period of exactly 168,123 years, approximately half of which had already elapsed.